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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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498 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. race track, and he also has a track on his own ranch. He employs trom fifty to one hundred handa, according to the season of the year. Mr. Reavis was married in 1858, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Hill, who was born in Missouri, and reared in Napa County, California. They have had five children, four of whom are living, viz.: James J., born in 1859;. William A., in 1861; Nellie B., in 1866, and D. M., Jr., in 1875. Mary, who was born in 1863, died at the age of two years. Mr. Reavis is a Master Mason, and his sons are Knights Templar. ln politics he is a Democrat. a mpm OUTHY W. LONG, who has resided in pioneer of 1849. He was born in Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky, March 17%, 1822, his parents being Jchn and Mary (Stevenson) Long, natives of Kentucky, whose parents ‘had come from Virginia among the first settlers, one grandfather coming with Daniel Boone. While Mr. Long was yet a child the fainily removed to the vicinity of Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, in 1826, and this was young Southy’s home until 1846. He then joined Company C of Colonel Doniphan’s regiment for the MexiThis command, raised in Northwestern Missouri, marched trom Fort Leavenworth through Kansas, the Indian Territory, and into Chihuahua, forming “a junction with General Taylor at Walnut Springs, near the Rio Grande. Before this the regiment had been engaged in the battles of Brazito and Chihuahua, as well as in some minor engagements with Indians. They were about fifteen months making the march, going as far as Durango, and losing only a few inen in those engagements. After the close of the war they marched to Brazos, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and took ship to New Or. leans, where they were paid off, the money thus received being the first that was paid to them during their whole term of service. Returning to Missouri, Mr. Long remaine . cian war. there until the spring of 1849. He had already three brothers—John Pope, Henry Clay and Willis—who had rettled in California in 1846. In the spring of 1849 our subject, in com; any with his brothers James and William Buck, left St. Joseph in April, and traveled with ox teams across the plains and mountains, reaching California in August on horseback, while the wagon teams did not arrive until the next month. Mr. Long went at once to the mines and operated on Feather River, near Oroville, until March, 1850, mining and merchandising, with fair results. He and his brothers then came to Vaca Valley and purchased a half league of land (2,219 acres) and engaged in stockraising; later Mr. Southy W. Long added ftrnit raising to his industries. In 1862 he became interested in mining in Idaho and Montana. His farm now comprises eighty acres, fifty acres of which is stocked with bearing fruit-trees and vines, consisting of Zinfandel grapes, peaches and apricots. About the 10th of August, 1887 he was stricken with paralysis, and since then has been an invalid. He was married in 1874 to Miss Sallie Clark, a native of Missouri, and a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Long) Clark, her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Kentucky. ee wt So dt tbo See cee — . PFOSIAH ALLISON, a fruit-raiser of Vaca ¥ Valley, has been a resident of California £ since 1854, when he brought his family here. Ue first crossed the plains to California in 1850. His parents were Charles and Hester (Stull) Allison, TIlis father, a native of Pennsylvania, came witb Ads father to Ohio, landing at Marietta November 11, 1789, as one of the settlers under the auspices of the Ohio Company, each member of which was granted 100 acres of Government land. He brought his ‘family there in a flat-boat from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and remained the most of his life in Ohio, and spent the last two years in Lowa, dying in 1847.